- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time has been for an appointment at a chronic pain clinic in each year since 1999.
Answer
Data on waiting times for a chronic pain clinic has only been collated since December 2015.
The below table sets out the median waiting time in weeks for a first appointment at a pain clinic or pain psychology clinic since December 2015.
Table 1: Median wait in weeks for a first appointment at a pain clinic or pain psychology clinic
Quarter Ending | Pain clinic/ service | Pain psychology clinic |
31-DEC-2015 | 11 | 7 |
31-MAR-2016 | 12 | 9 |
30-JUN-2016 | 13 | 10 |
30-SEP-2016 | 16 | 6 |
31-DEC-2016 | 15 | 8 |
31-MAR-2017 | 13 | 11 |
30-JUN-2017 | 13 | 9 |
30-SEP-2017 | 13 | 8 |
31-DEC-2017 | 12 | 12 |
31-MAR-2018 | 12 | 10 |
30-JUN-2018 | 12 | 14 |
30-SEP-2018 | 13 | 20 |
Source: ISD Waiting Times Warehouse
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time is for an assessment for deep brain stimulation surgery.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-21522 on 26 February 2019. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report by Parkinson's UK, People. Parkinson's. Scotland. What do we know about services and support for people with Parkinson’s in Scotland?, which anticipates that there will be a 20% increase in the number of people with the condition over the next decade, and what action it is taking to ensure that NHS boards and health and social care partnerships are planning for this.
Answer
We welcome this report from Parkinson’s UK and will consider it closely as we continue to work with the neurological community to develop Scotland’s first National Action Plan on Neurological Conditions. Through this engagement we have already identified that we need to: understand the gaps in prevalence for neurological conditions; improve and enhance the capture of data; and further develop systems/ processes that support service planning and workforce development based on this information.
The public consultation on our draft plan closed on 8 February 2019. We will carefully consider all feedback received and publish our final plan later this year.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time is to have deep brain stimulation surgery following assessment.
Answer
Data for waiting times is collected at speciality level not procedure level. This level of detail should be sought from individual health boards.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address the reported 10% consultant vacancy rate in neurology and medicine for older people.
Answer
The Scottish Government works closely with Boards to support their efforts in staff recruitment and retention. To support health boards, we are investing £4 million over the next three years in domestic and international recruitment for GPs, nursing, midwifery and consultant specialties with the highest existing vacancy rates.
We are working to develop a comprehensive plan to help address recruitment and retention challenges across the health and social care sector. This includes consultation on Scotland’s first National Action Plan for Neurological Conditions, which covers a number of areas including workforce planning. We are carefully considering the consultations responses with a view to publishing the final plan later this year.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been allocated to each NHS board from the £850 million of funding for its waiting times improvement plan.
Answer
The first £26.7 million of the £850 million has been allocated across all territorial NHS Boards and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in 2018-19. This funding is being used to increase workforce, purchase new equipment, put on additional clinics in the evenings and weekends and additional theatres. Subsequent funding will be allocated on specific proposals to increase capacity as outlined in the waiting times improvement plan.
Health Board | Amount awarded | Key Specialities |
NHS Ayrshire
and Arran | £1,987,582 | Dermatology Gynaecology,
Orthopaedics |
NHS Borders | £987,900 | Diagnostics, Cardiology,
Ophthalmology, Radiology |
NHS Dumfries
and Galloway | £252,000 | Orthopaedics, Dermatology,
ENT, General Surgery |
NHS Fife | £677,466 | Ophthalmology, Urology,
Dermatology, Cardiology,
Diagnostics |
NHS Forth
Valley | £1,716,000 | ENT, Trauma and
Orthopaedics,
General Surgery |
NHS Grampian | £791,000 | Ophthalmology, Endoscopy |
NHS Greater Glasgow
and Clyde | £9,058,048 | Orthopaedics, Neurology,
Neuro surgery, Endoscopy,
Dermatology |
NHS Highland | £2,028,161 | Ophthalmology,
General Surgery,
Endoscopy |
NHS Lanarkshire | £3,010,534 | Ophthalmology ,Dermatology,
General surgery, Neurology,
Rheumatology |
NHS Lothian | £2,767,364 | ENT, Chronic Pain,
General surgery,
Paediatric-orthopaedics |
NHS Orkney | £62,000 | Ophthalmology, Cardiology,
Dermatology, Physiotherapy,
Orthotics |
NHS Shetland | £203,500 | Dermatology, Ophthalmology,
Orthopaedics, Ultrasound |
NHS Tayside | £2,735,672 | Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology,
Neurology, Dermatology |
NHS Western Isles | £10,228 | Surgical Equipment |
Golden Jubilee | £410,908 | Endoscopy, Cardiology
and Ophthalmology |
TOTAL | £26,698,363 | |
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have died of alcohol-related liver disease in each year since 1999.
Answer
Alcoholic Liver disease is one of 15 conditions included in the Alcohol Specific Deaths statistics published annually by National Records of Scotland.
Data for number of deaths by underlying cause of death is available in table 2 of the NRS Alcohol-specific Deaths (new National Statistics definition) Data Tables which are available at the following link.
The data for alcoholic liver disease is detailed in the following table.
Alcohol-specific deaths (new National Statistics definition) by underlying cause of death (ICD-10): registered in Scotland, 2000 to 2017
Underlying Cause of Death
(ICD-10) 1 | Total for K70 -
Alcoholic liver disease |
2000 | 779 |
2001 | 866 |
2002 | 957 |
2003 | 976 |
2004 | 876 |
2005 | 976 |
2006 | 1003 |
2007 | 920 |
2008 | 936 |
2009 | 820 |
2010 | 814 |
2011 | 764 |
2012 | 646 |
2013 | 682 |
2014 | 658 |
2015 | 650 |
2016 | 729 |
2017 | 738 |
NOTE: due to changes in coding data prior to 2000 use different coding definitions so have not been included in the above table. Data for the period 1979 - 1999 are available in table 2A of the NRS Alcohol-specific Deaths (new National Statistics definition) Data Tables which can be found at the following link.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 22 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that people with Parkinson’s are able to access appropriate mental health services.
Answer
The Scottish Government wants everyone with a neurological condition to be able to access the care and support they need to live well, on their own terms, and we are determined to improve access to mental health services for all those who need them. We are investing £250 million in services over five years, and £54 million to help NHS Boards improve access to psychological therapies by investing in workforce development, recruitment and retention, and service improvement support. Additionally, we support NHS 24 to provide a number of other services designed to expand access to treatment including computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to prescribing very low calorie diets as part of action by the NHS to tackle rises in obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Answer
Tackling obesity and the growing prevalence of type 2 diabetes are high priorities for the Scottish Government.
In addition to the Diet & Healthy Weight delivery plan, last summer I published the , the implementation of which will be supported by £42 million over the next 5 years. The framework provides national guidance to NHS Boards on the provision of evidenced-based weight management interventions. This includes very low calorie diets and total diet replacement programmes with staged food re-introduction, to suitable patients, based on evidence of successful remission results from the DiRECT trial, a collaboration between University of Glasgow, Newcastle University and Diabetes UK.
The Type 2 Diabetes Prevention, Early Detection and Intervention Framework can be found at this line: .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2019
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 28 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made with introducing access to thrombectomy services in Scotland.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 28 February 2019
